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David Voelker was a partner and chief executive officer at Voelker and Conway Investments. In 1993, he had co-founded the former Frantzen-Voelker Investments. Following [[Hurricane Katrina]], Democratic Governor [[Kathleen Blanco]] named him to the Louisiana Recovery Authority. Blanco's successor and past opponent, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bobby Jindal]], elevated Voelkerto the chairmanship of the authority.<ref name=drvo>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/05/david_voelker_lra_chairman_and.h|title=David Voelker, 'one of the great saints of the recovery,' dies at 60|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=June 2, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, though he had been identified previously as a "longtime, diehard Republican," David Voelker was the largest donor in Louisiana to Democrat [[Barack Hussein Obama]] of [[Illinois]], having given the then neophyte presidential candidate $80,000, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanewslink.com/archives.php?id=8421|title=Story Archives: Obama's Louisiana Donors' Reasons Varied|publisher=lanewslink.com|accessdate=June 2, 2013}}</ref>

David Voelker was a partner and chief executive officer at Voelker and Conway Investments. In 1993, he had co-founded the former Frantzen-Voelker Investments. Following [[Hurricane Katrina]], Democratic Governor [[Kathleen Blanco]] named him to the Louisiana Recovery Authority. Blanco's successor and past opponent, [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Bobby Jindal]], elevated Voelkerto the chairmanship of the authority.<ref name=drvo>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/05/david_voelker_lra_chairman_and.h|title=David Voelker, 'one of the great saints of the recovery,' dies at 60|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=June 2, 2013}}</ref> In 2008, though he had been identified previously as a "longtime, diehard Republican," David Voelker was the largest donor in Louisiana to Democrat [[Barack Hussein Obama]] of [[Illinois]], having given the then neophyte presidential candidate $80,000, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanewslink.com/archives.php?id=8421|title=Story Archives: Obama's Louisiana Donors' Reasons Varied|publisher=lanewslink.com|accessdate=June 2, 2013}}</ref>

   

   

Voelker was the founder and president of Legacy Donor Foundation at 1440 Canal Street, which assists patients in need of organ transplants,<ref name=drvobit/> and the Greater New Orleans Miracle League, which organizes disabled children who wish to play baseball. Voelker got the idea for the Miracle League after he viewed a television report about the organization as founded in Conyers, [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/family/index.ssf/2012/05/miracle_league_gives_kids_with.html|title=Sheila Stroup, "Miracle League gives kids with special needs a turn at bat," May 15, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=June 8, 2013}}</ref> He was a contributor and fundraiser for the [[Roman Catholic]] Academy of the Sacred Hear, the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Children's Hospital, Xavier University, and  [[Tulane University]] Health Sciences Center, the foundation of the University of New Orleans, and the [[National World War II Museum]], all located in New Orleans.<ref name=drvobit/> He was also a donor to the Good Shepherd Early Childhood Development Center, an early elementary Montessori school established by his mother in Lake Providence.<ref name=vwvobit/>

Voelker was the founder and president of Legacy Donor Foundation at 1440 Canal Street, which assists patients in need of organ transplants,<ref name=drvobit/> and the Greater New Orleans Miracle League, which organizes disabled children who wish to play baseball. Voelker got the idea for the Miracle League after he viewed a television report about the organization as founded in Conyers, [[Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/family/index.ssf/2012/05/miracle_league_gives_kids_with.html|title=Sheila Stroup, "Miracle League gives kids with special needs a turn at bat," May 15, 2012|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|accessdate=June 8, 2013}}</ref> He was a contributor and fundraiser for the [[Roman Catholic]] Academy of the Sacred Heart, the Children's Hospital, Xavier University, [[Tulane University]] Health Sciences Center, the foundation of the University of New Orleans, and the National World War II Museum, all located in New Orleans.<ref name=drvobit/> He was also a donor to the Good Shepherd Early Childhood Development Center, an early elementary Montessori school established by his mother in Lake Providence.<ref name=vwvobit/>

==Death at 60==

==Death at 60==